Published in 1901, A Honeymoon in Space is a scientific romance by George Griffith — a popular late-Victorian writer of adventure and science fiction — in which a wealthy lord and his new bride embark on an interplanetary honeymoon, visiting the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other worlds aboard a privately built spacecraft. The novel belongs to the early tradition of imaginary voyages to other planets that preceded modern science fiction.
As a period piece of Edwardian speculation about the cosmos, it offers a fascinating window into how writers and readers imagined space travel before the rocket age. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and explore an early classic of the genre.